The Test Drive: Old House Playground – 21st Century Glory
Old House Playground are releasing a new AA side on November 16th with two power packed singles "21st Century Glory" and "Love And Other Demons" which are as varied yet tasteful in contrast with...
The Test Drive: Nine Lies – 9Lies
I have to say it right at the start for those of you who skim these reviews. This album, "9Lies" kicks ass. Simply put. The Belfast, Ireland outfit has found their niche and sound...
The Test Drive: Various Artists – David Cameron’s Eton Mess
David Cameron's Eton Mess is a compilation of embryonic Scottish guitar bands, very few with any more than an EP or two available online. Most of the bands are friends and a lot of...
The Test Drive: Speaking In Shadows – Anchor
The new effort from Nuneaton, U.K. five piece Speaking In Shadows, titled "Anchor", is proof positive on how much the band has grown since their last album, "The Lies We Lead" in 2014. The...
The Test Drive: Pacific – What Are You Waiting For
The release of piano-led Alternative Indie/Rock band Pacific's EP 'What Are You Waiting For' follows the huge success of February 2015's single release ‘Time to Forget’. The song reaped Pacific’s first BBC Radio 1...
The Test Drive: Kissing Party – Looking Back It Was Romantic But At The...
Tired of Ty Segal? Bored with Beck? Wanna slit your wrists at the thought of another Jack White album...
From the Mile High City comes Kissing Party, your new favorite band whether you like it...
The Test Drive: Crooked Weather – Long Garden
Based in East Yorkshire, England, Crooked Weather play earthy, unruly and original folk songs. The sound is lead by carefully crafted lyrics delivered by the haunting harmonies of Holly and Will.
The music on 'Long...
The Test Drive: Deplacement – Carousel
The new album from Deplacement, "Carousel", is a New Wave journey into the art of the craft called music. The duo from Italy have taken ten tracks with emotional lyrics and have given each...
The Test Drive: Megan Landry – Stills
I have to start this review off with an apology. Sometimes the volume of submissions overwhelms us here at Jammerzine and a song, video, or album slips through the cracks. And sometimes, that album...
The Test Drive: Robert Taira Wilson – Nail And Hammer
Robert Taira Wilson is a London singer, guitarist & songwriter from London who has just released a new album, "Nail And Hammer". From the lyrics in the opening track, "Our Normal Way", where Robert...
The Test Drive: Ashes To Ashes – Urania
Italian rockers Ashes To Ashes are the perfect blend of melodic sensibility and hard rock songwriting craftiness wrapped in a beautiful package of showstopping production. This filler-less outing from Ashes To Ashes is eleven...
The Test Drive: Gillbanks – Lend Me Your Skin
The truth is that you have no true self-realized opinions, you have no absolute idea about who you are or what sort of legacy you’ll leave. Everything you are is an adoption, a slice...
The Test Drive: The Virgance – Paradigm 3
The Virgance are an up 'n' coming shoegaze act from the U.K. with a well rounded set of tracks under the moniker "Paradigm 3". In a way I really have to point out how...
The Test Drive: Saint Cole – Within This Skin
Nic (vocals/producer/DJ) and Curt (guitar/keys) are from a small town called Dewsbury in West Yorkshire just two miles from Morley, home of the legendary nineties techno night The Orbit. Heavily influenced by this scene...
The Test Drive: Fenrir – The Rise
"The Rise: Pt 1" is the new EP from Ipswitch, UK based outfit Fenrir. Featuring a set of six tracks that pour their heart out in ways that enthuse the listener and inspire the...
The Test Drive: Calming River – The Ones That We Left Behind
Calming River is the stage name of British songwriter Joshua Brain.
Delicate and tender, his alternative-acoustic songs shine a melancholic light within a dark and brooding atmosphere. Intricate fingerpicking, numerous tunings and reflective, somber lyrics...
The Test Drive: Future Talk – The Path That Sadness Paved
Welcome to the new face of alternative in Gloucestershire based Future Talk. With the release of their new album, ‘The Path That Sadness Paved’, released August 24th, Future Talk introduce a well crafted blend of layered...
The Test Drive: Northern Uproar – Hey Samurai!
Northern Uproar will release a new album on October 9th 2015. 'Hey Samurai!', the Mancunian band's fifth studio album, is set to impress fans and critics alike, challenging preconceptions through its unique blending of...
The Test Drive: Angéline – Back to Pike Place
Originally from Loire Atlantique in France, singer/songwriter Angéline is now based in London, the city in which she studied for her music degree. She describes her latest EP 'Back to Pike Place' as bold...
The Test Drive: Pure Phase Ensemble 4 feat. Mark Gardener – Live at SpaceFest!
A lot has happened since the Shoegaze heyday in the 1990s, but more and more, this year is proving to be one of the Shoegaze revival, with bands like Ride, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Medicine reforming...
The Test Drive: Trip Wire – Get In And Get Out
For fans of those indie bands of yesteryear like The Replacements, R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü (like me) then Trip Wire is most definitely for you! From the opening of "Fall Through" to the ending of...
The Test Drive: The Bros. Landreth – Let It Lie
"Let It Lie" is the new album from Canadian alt-rockers The Bros. Landreth. The band itself is a tight outfit poised to take the country scene by storm but just underneath that lies the...
The Test Drive: Hot Glew – May I Come In?
Hot Glew is the brainchild of Nashville native Brett Keller. Nashville has long been the music Mecca east of the Mississippi and this is yet more proof of this. What we have here is...
The Test Drive: My Cruel Goro – My Cruel Goro
Likely not many have pondered on what the result would be musically if you were to add one dash of Italy and one dash of Icelend, for instance. Sounds more like the recipe for...
The Test Drive: The Spitfires – Response
The Spitfires bring me back to the days of The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Steve Jones' later project The Professionals as well as later pioneers Bad Religion and Rancid. What sets The Spitfires apart...